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Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing US heat wave
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | July 16, 2023 | AP Staff

Posted on 07/16/2023 6:23:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons.

Even as the already extreme temperatures are forecast to climb even higher, potentially topping records amid a major U.S. heat wave, tourists are arriving at this infamous desert landscape on the California-Nevada border.

Daniel Jusehus snapped a photo earlier this week of a famed thermometer outside the aptly named Furnace Creek Visitor Center after challenging himself to a run in the sweltering heat.

"I was really noticing, you know, I didn't feel so hot, but my body was working really hard to cool myself," said Jusehus, an active runner who was visiting from Germany. His photo showed the thermometer reading at 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 degrees Celsius).

Most visitors at this time of year make it only a short distance to any site in the park — which bills itself as the lowest, hottest and driest place on Earth — before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle.

This weekend, the temperatures could climb past 130 F (54.4 C), but that likely won't deter some willing to brave the heat. Signs at hiking trails advise against venturing out after 10 a.m., though nighttime temperatures are still expected to be over 90 F (32.2 C). The hottest temperature recorded at Death Valley was 134 F (56.6 C) in July 1913, according to the park service.

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To: ChildOfThe60s

Average temps from world as a whole are almost exactly close to normal. This happens more often than not. SOme areas are hotter than normal, while others are cooler than normal. Some areas get more rain than normal, other areas experience drought.

Memo to Al Gore: Arctic glaciers have not melted.


41 posted on 07/16/2023 7:22:18 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians are there to build wealth. Trump is there to lose wealth to serve people.)
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To: chrisinoc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-KUF-xiV5o

YEP.


42 posted on 07/16/2023 7:22:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Drew68
So was this 110 year old temperature record broken this weekend?

Nope. The high temperature in Death Valley on Saturday was 125° and 126° today (Sunday). Typical Summer temps I see every year there. I live 20 miles from the northern border of the park. The 134° temp record in 1913 is under depute by meteorologists and they say the real official World record high temp was 130° in Death Valley on July 9, 2021.

43 posted on 07/16/2023 7:23:56 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Paladin2

I thought I was the only person on FR who followed Wonderhussy.


44 posted on 07/16/2023 7:25:54 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ah, but it’s a dry heat.


45 posted on 07/16/2023 7:26:52 PM PDT by bgill
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To: chrisinoc

She seems to be a very one-off, Iconic American.....

Out of the Personal Responsibly -—> [gives one] Personal Liberty, American mold.


46 posted on 07/16/2023 7:35:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: packagingguy
El Azizia in Libya has recorded 58 degrees Celsius.

That number is meaningless to most of us. Luckily all I had to do was ask Siri to convert it into Fahrenheit.

136.4° Fahrenheit

47 posted on 07/16/2023 7:44:16 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: AlaskaErik

“136.4° Fahrenheit”

Warm, schmorm....


48 posted on 07/16/2023 7:46:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: AlaskaErik

That 136 in Libya was was determined to be unreliable by meteorologists and thrown out of the record books.


49 posted on 07/16/2023 7:48:39 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: chrisinoc

That sounds like that abandoned school bus in Alaska near a hiking trail. Where that misguided back to nature twenty something got caught on the wrong side of a raging icy river and starved to death a few years ago.


50 posted on 07/16/2023 7:59:19 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Santa Barbara is not impressed:

“Every June 17, the story is retold of “Santa Barbara’s Hottest Day” on June 17, 1859, when the temperature reached an astounding 133 degrees.”

https://www.noozhawk.com/santa_barbaras_hottest_day_and_a_record_high_of_133_degrees_20200617/


51 posted on 07/16/2023 8:10:41 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: hardspunned

DTE here in Michigan is closing its last coal fired plant next year...


52 posted on 07/16/2023 8:17:59 PM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: desertsolitaire

I just read that story. Wow.


53 posted on 07/16/2023 8:40:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Imagine the precip it would generate if they put a de-sal plant on the beach and ran a pipeline of fresh water to flood death valley.


54 posted on 07/16/2023 9:00:45 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Inyo-Mono
The 134° temp record in 1913 is under depute by meteorologists and they say the real official World record high temp was 130° in Death Valley on July 9, 2021.

LOL! Of course they’d do this. The world record doesn’t work with today’s global warming orthodoxy so they’ll just erase it from the history books.

55 posted on 07/16/2023 9:09:55 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I check the weather in a few cities every day.

Yuma, AZ - really hot but no records.

Bluff, UT - pretty hot but no records.

ABQ, NM - hot, heat advisories issued, not even close to record temps.

Loveland, CO - in the upper 80s/low 90s, not even close to record temps.

Atlantic cty, NJ - warm, far from any record.


56 posted on 07/16/2023 9:20:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I have been there in the summer but wanted to visit as a geologist. It was magnificent but a hell hole of heat. It was just normal weather in Death Valley. There is a reason they call it Death Valley. It has nothing to do with global warming which is not real.


57 posted on 07/16/2023 9:26:25 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-geologist- instructor pilot-almost chemist-pharmacist-retired.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I was born in Minnesota. I’ve lived in
California, Texas, Indiana, Ohio, New
NMexico, and Florida. I’ll not argue that fishing in Lake of the Woods is fantastic.
I still have a fond memory of Choke Cherry
jam.
What if I were to say that New Mexico has
ice, snow, some of the worlds greatest trout
fishing, high mountain pines, and streams.
The place has a habit of growing on you
even with current political winds.
Wide open vista’s, beautiful sunsets.
They don’t call it the Land of Enchantment
for nothing.


58 posted on 07/17/2023 12:32:07 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Texas resident

I live in the great lakes basin area.
For me, the humidity is a killer before it gets to 100.
My first trip to Vegas>Very hot!, but I was not covered in perspiration


59 posted on 07/17/2023 4:39:00 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: ChildOfThe60s

We are having a very mild summer here in GA.


60 posted on 07/17/2023 7:26:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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